The nvidia drivers like to think that the DPI of my monitor is 95x96, which results in badly-formed fonts (some lines are too thin, some are too fat). I fix that by putting in xorg.conf, within Section "Monitor":

I'm sorry I'm gentoo zealot and I know nothing about slack
Installing from source the old way (./configure, make, make install) should be easy though. Just read ebuilds and things should be pretty clear as how to do it.

Does anyone know the best options for the /etc/font.conf file? I'm just using the lcd example in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts but that guide doesn't seem to reliable.
For starters it says to disable the bindist flag to enable the bytecode which seems wrong to me, I would change it but im not 100% sure (Although i did check the ebuild). Also my fonts have a yellow halo around them after following the guide (also green, purple and blue depending on the size) but i think thats the old sub pixel rendering screwing up (changing from RGB mode seemed to help) hopefully the new SPR will fix my problems.

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hm, when changing font config in gnome 2.16 I dont get a .fontconfig directory, nor does it create a ~/.fonts.conf like previus versions did. And I can see noticable differences when changing the options in gnome terminal, and other gnome apps, but not in x-chat and firefox.

Anyone know what the "correct" way of doing this is? I'm thinking of just making my own fonts.conf like I had before and removing the gnome settings, don't know where they are stored now though :/ (gconf maybe?)

Thanks for this howto, it's very nice and works like a charm.
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That helps out a bit but i don't think it's an antialias problem: if i totally remove antialias, hinting, ecc... i still see bold fonts too bold. I think it's a rendering or font (Tahoma) problem. Do you know a way to reduce the... bolding effect? Something like a match, test on the bold fonts, and make them not-so-bold instead of bold

The fact is that i can't remember how the fonts were before. Probably they were so ugly that i didn't notice it, but there must be a way to reduce the bolding effect.

Screenshots? If your fonts don't look as good as in "after" screenshot then obviously you did something wrong . If they look exactly the same then use what YOU like best. I'm not saying my overlay will satisfy everyone - I did it because I liked the effect and tought some people might like it too. Patches from gentoo's bugzilla and mine are very likely to come from exactly the same source so I don't think this is the problem._________________[HOWTO]New freetype subpixel font rendering for lcd monitors